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Travis-Mayo

The Sapir-Whorf Idea and the Film Arrival
Time and the Participatory Universe
Time and the Participatory Universe
Three short lessons on the block universe, Wheeler's participatory universe and how clocks and time zones were measured and decided.
Watching Your Own Thoughts
Watching Your Own Thoughts
Two short lessons on metacognition and drifting, and why noticing the thinker and choosing a direction matter.
Who Is the Self
Who Is the Self
Eight short thought experiments on personal identity, from Parfit's reductionism and the teleporter to the Ship of Theseus, The Egg and fate.
Word Origins and Hidden Patterns in Language
Word Origins and Hidden Patterns in Language
Short lessons on the history of logos and glamour, theories of where language came from, Zipf's law and what translation changes.